Animal-eared Girl Era: Start by Forming a Contract with an SSS-Class School Belle

System task? I accepted it! This system finally wised up, willing to hand out evolution points.

Three hundred evolution points, enough to raise both of my summoned beasts to stage three!

After thinking it through, Xiao Ye looked at the tattooed guy with the scarred face, feeling like he had seen him somewhere before.

"Yang Junming, Son of the Titan Venerable, number one on Titan Academy's Pride Leaderboard," the tattooed youth said with a clasp of his fists, smiling.

Seeing the guy was so polite, Xiao Ye said, "Kunpeng Academy, number two on the Pride Leaderboard, Xiao Ye."

The two hadn't met in real life, but Yang Junming, ever the friendly type, issued a friendly challenge, "Xiao Ye, I've long heard of your legendary feats. You're Kunpeng Academy's strongest prodigy, so today I want to see what makes you so impressive."

"How about we see who can take down the king beast here first?" Yang Junming's expression was provocation itself.

Having picked up the system task, Xiao Ye was already planning to seize the king beast. Now, being challenged, his fighting spirit surged, and he said, "Let's see who's got the skills."

Yang Junming's lips curled. Maybe Xiao Ye would surpass him later, but for now? No way.

The Contractor with a gender-neutral look curled her lip in disdain, "Ming, why bother challenging him? Kunpeng Academy's always a notch below us Titans, and besides, you're top of the Pride Leaderboard, he's only number two at Kunpeng."

"If anyone should be challenging, it should be him challenging you!"

Liu Ya's pretty face darkened, and she snapped, "Hey! Watch your mouth."

The gender-neutral Contractor, Hongyun, only just noticed the sultry Liu Ya standing to the side of the ancient tree.

Long legs, slender waist, delicate curves, absolutely stunning.

*That was Hongyun's first impression of Liu Ya.*

"Hmph!" Hongyun didn't know Liu Ya, so just gave a cold snort and turned her head away without saying anything.

Yang Junming laughed in surprise, "So Assistant Liu Ya's here too. Xiaoyun, that's the most beautiful assistant, Liu Ya."

Hongyun was surprised, giving Liu Ya a careful look. She'd heard the name "the most beautiful assistant" for ages, but was seeing her in person for the first time. She nodded brusquely, which counted as a greeting.

Xiao Ye, impatient, simply leapt forward, dashing toward the biggest ancient tree.

An eight-star Grandmaster Blazing Fire King Beast—Xiao Ye was determined to get it.

Right then, Yang Junming wanted to chat with Liu Ya, but Hongyun reminded him, "Ming, the guy you challenged went to kill the king beast. Are you really gonna stay here and flirt with beauties?"

Yang Junming turned his head—and sure enough! Xiao Ye was already making his move.

He hurried after him at once.

Xiao Ye's Power of Realm swelled all around him. He was like a tiger descending the mountain, packed with explosive force.

The Blazing Fire Demon Beast looked like a cross between a squirrel and a bat, with fiery red wings, nimble limbs, and eyes blazing with high heat.

"Zee zee zee!" Ever since Xiao Ye and the others had entered the territory, the king beast had been on guard. Now, with Xiao Ye charging in, it gave a command, and its guardian beasts met him head-on, spitting out flame bursts like long rainbow arcs.

Boom! Boom!

Those arcs of fire shot right at him, radiating intense heat.

Xiao Ye leaped and twisted across the branches, suddenly surging forward, doing a full split kick with both legs.

Bang! Bang! Right on target—he nailed the two Blazing Fire Demon Beast protectors.

They were sent flying, crashing into the king beast's lair, demolishing the nest completely.

Severely wounded!

"Extract fragments!" Xiao Ye activated the Template Adjuster right away.

[Grandmaster Realm Blazing Fire Demon Beast. Successfully extracted two Fire Element Rule Fragment Crystals]

The Blazing Fire King Beast couldn't sense the extraction force. In its eyes, the two badly wounded guardian demon beasts' bodies just started to rot away, instantly turning into dust that scattered through the air.

"Zee zee!!" The king beast was pissed, ordering all the Blazing Fire Horde to attack Xiao Ye. That petite little thing slipped into a tree hollow and vanished—clearly it had bolted to another ancient tree.

Yang Junming jumped onto a branch nearby, exclaiming, "Not bad, man! One strike KO on a six-star Grandmaster—so your realm's at least eight-star Grandmaster now, huh?"

Blazing Fire Demon Beasts didn't have much attack power solo, but they matched an A-Rank template six-star Grandmaster summoned beast.

For a Contractor who inherited an SSS-rated summoned beast, human form strength at eight-star Grandmaster was enough to kill them.

"Yup." Xiao Ye bullshitted casually.

*Eight-star? That's two ranks below me.* Yang Junming decided not to make Xiao Ye's defeat look too bad later.

The whole area was now echoing with screechy, raspy "zee zee" cries. The surrounding trees were suddenly swarming with Blazing Fire Demon Beasts, packed tight in the air, all stampeding toward Xiao Ye and Yang Junming.

BOOM!!!

The whole beast horde unleashed their skill—Sun's Fierce Flames! Each one erupted in blinding, ultra-hot fire, so dazzling it looked like the golden crow sun itself smashing right into the two of them.

Yang Junming flexed his knuckles till they cracked, saying, "Xiao Ye, you scared? If so, hide behind me."

Xiao Ye twitched his mouth, then—BANG!—unleashed a Grandmaster Realm aura. Find this сhаptеr's sоurсе оn МV-LЕМ-РYR.

That thick, rich Power of Realm spread out, shrouding his whole body tightly.

Xiao Ye's fist, bigger than a sandbag, smashed forward, throwing himself right at the mass of flame.

*Yang Junming had planned to dodge, but his eyes popped in surprise,* "Damn, you're just gonna crash in head-on? You got a death wish? Over two hundred of them, all using skills at once—you need at least Grandmaster Realm for that."

"Wait, that aura's..."

Yang Junming was shook, "Only a Grandmaster has that kind of realm presence! Holy shit, this guy already broke through?"

Under the ancient tree, the gender-neutral Hongyun saw Yang Junming standing there like an idiot, and couldn't help but yell,

"Yang Junming, don't act like a wimp—get in there!"

"Since when were you this gutless? It's just a four-star Grandmaster beast horde, and it's scaring you stupid!"

She was pissed.

*As a Titan prodigy, to get shown up by a Kunpeng prodigy? Ridiculous.*

Hongyun's taunt made Yang Junming's glare turn fierce; Power of Realm erupted around him too, and he charged in.

BAM!!

BAM!!

Xiao Ye and Yang Junming crashed in one after the other with the jam-packed Blazing Fire horde.

Sun's Fierce Flames exploded, and the whole ancient tree grove was lit up like the surface of the sun—blinding, searing heat rocketed up.

Hongyun and Liu Ya instinctively shielded their eyes.

"Aaargh!!" came a scream.

Hongyun shuddered. That was Yang Junming's scream.

Liu Ya's powerful spiritual telekinesis was always covering this forest, and from her vantage point—

She saw Yang Junming tangled up with the beast horde; his protective Power of Realm burned away by Sun's Fierce Flames in seconds, then all his clothes and hair went up in smoke, his skin charred totally black.

With a thud, like a dead dog, Yang Junming crashed to the ground, barely hanging onto life.

But Xiao Ye was a different story. Power of Realm at Grandmaster level was a jump in quality from Grandmaster—another tier entirely.

Hundreds of Blazing Fire Demon Beasts launching Sun's Fierce Flames,

couldn't even burn away Xiao Ye's realm energy.

Xiao Ye only felt a bit hot—didn't suffer any real damage at all.

With a bang, the whole tightly-packed beast horde was knocked flying in all directions.

A third of them couldn't take the hit, crashed to the ground, and buried the pitch-black Yang Junming.

You could see at a glance who was stronger.

When the light faded and Hongyun opened her eyes, she heard Yang Junming's nearly lifeless cry for help, "Hongyun, help me."